D. Jeyachandran: Project Data Moving Animal

Posted by David Jeyachandran on May 10, 2010

The Data
Moving Animal is a must-have tool
for Notes developers and administrators. When working in a complex Notes
environment, your job almost certainly involves pulling together data from
different Lotus Notes systems. There will also be times that there is data
in CSV or Excel files that you need to pull into a Notes database. Read
the testimonials
and then download
and try the "Three minute evaluation".

Here’s a simple example of how the
Data Moving Animal has helped me. Recently I needed to update data in a
Lotus Notes Corporate Phone Book. The data I wanted (each person’s division)
existed in a Peoplesoft database which I did not have access to. The Peoplesoft
administrator provided me with a CSV file which had the employee id and
the "Division" data that I needed. I was able to quickly create
a Data Moving Animal config that allowed me to pull data from the CSV file,
find the relevant Notes document (using the employee id), and update the
division field. The logging is also fantastic along
with the ability to run the Data Moving Animal in "Analysis mode"
or "Live mode". The Data Moving Animal also does lots
of boring things like archive databases on schedule. See the
demo on YouTube.Please post your feedback. I would love
to add your name to the list of contributors.